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🇧🇩🔥Bangladesh burning – Southasia Weekly #97
By
Raisa Wickrematunge
BNP leader Tarique Rahman’s return, the Kerala sexual assault case, over 200 people charged with violating election law in Myanmar and more
📚 Southasia Review of Books - 17 December 2025
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📚 Southasia Review of Books - 17 December 2025
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Shwetha Srikanthan
New from Amitav Ghosh, feminist lives in Nepal, and more
📖✒️ “Arundhati Roy’s own life is really her great subject”: Supriya Nair speaks on ‘Mother Mary Comes To Me’
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📖✒️ “Arundhati Roy’s own life is really her great subject”: Supriya Nair speaks on ‘Mother Mary Comes To Me’
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Shwetha Srikanthan
The Mumbai-based writer and editor Supriya Nair takes us through Arundhati Roy’s memoir of love, loyalty and the larger-than-life Mrs Roy
💯 for Himal – Power Southasian journalism into 2026!
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💯 for Himal – Power Southasian journalism into 2026!
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Roman Gautam
Our small team made a big splash this year. Now we need 100 new Patrons to cap off 2025.
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🚲🌇The problem with Southasian cities – Southasia Weekly #96
By
Raisa Wickrematunge
The politics of space in India and Pakistan, Khaleda Zia's illness and the crisis within the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, renewed clashes along Pakistan-Afghanistan border and more
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👩🏽📚How do we read Arundhati Roy? – Southasia Weekly #95
By
Raisa Wickrematunge
Arundhati Roy’s memoir, Sri Lanka’s disaster mismanagement after Cyclone Ditwah and more
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